Chittenden County, Vermont African Variety Show, 6 May 2023

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From YouTube: African Variety Show: Workshop on Congolese Community: Stress, Chronic Stress & Self Management

Description

Stress is your body's physical, mental, or emotional reaction to a demand or challenge. It affects the way we act, think, and feel overall when we are under too much mental or emotional pressure. Stress occurs when you face a new, unpredictable or threatening situation, and you don’t know whether you can manage it successfully. Relocating to the United States is a big life change, one that comes with a lot of stress that people may not always be aware of. Chronic stress, in particular, can take a significant toll on a person’s health and impact their daily lives.

Chronic stress is a prolonged and constant feeling of stress that can negatively affect your health if it goes untreated. It can be caused by the everyday pressures of family and work or by traumatic situations. It can be emotional stress (difficult emotions such as anger, sadness, or frustration), environmental stress (where you live and work), relationship stress (how you relate to friends, family, co-workers, partners), or work stress (challenges and pressures related to your job).

In French:
Le stress est la réaction physique, mentale ou émotionnelle de votre corps à une demande ou à un défi. Cela affecte la façon dont nous agissons, pensons et ressentons en général lorsque nous subissons trop de pression mentale ou émotionnelle. Le stress survient lorsque vous faites face à une situation nouvelle, imprévisible ou menaçante, et que vous ne savez pas si vous pouvez la gérer avec succès. Déménager aux États-Unis est un grand changement de vie, qui s'accompagne de beaucoup de stress dont les gens ne sont pas toujours conscients. Le stress chronique, en particulier, peut nuire considérablement à la santé d'une personne et avoir un impact sur sa vie quotidienne.

Le stress chronique est une sensation de stress prolongée et constante qui peut nuire à votre santé si elle n'est pas traitée. Elle peut être causée par les pressions quotidiennes de la famille et du travail ou par des situations traumatisantes. Il peut s'agir d'un stress émotionnel (émotions difficiles telles que la colère, la tristesse ou la frustration), d'un stress environnemental (l'endroit où vous vivez et travaillez), d'un stress relationnel (comment vous vous comportez avec vos amis, votre famille, vos collègues, vos partenaires) ou d'un stress au travail.

The guests: Natalie Lloyd, Nolan LaPosta, Lali Iskandarova, Aidan Stickles, Heather Keane, Faith Carroll, Nicole Ritchie, Mary Koranteng, Tatiana Smith, Jocelyn Somers.

5/6/2023

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Ok, hello, hello, everyone welcome to our and to our Channel seventeen television station. It's a real pleasure to have you back for this month, the months of May. So as usual, African will see things. It's a show that is ours to be able to and receive a lot of information concerning culture, education, and it is a program that is for immigrants to integrate well here in Vermont, mainly in the city of Burlington and hello everwan, and the welcome to the channel seventeen.

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Community, so it's students from the University of Vermont and New York University and at placeboard, and they had a workshop on the Congolese community, whose themes are entitled stress and.

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Self management: how can we manage the stress all that, so we are going to welcome them? We have to introduce ourselves and even.

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Ok, it's she had just answered, so we're not going to do the literal translation, but we're going to try a little to harmonize with certain little words so that common mortals can really follow. So she had just said this. The stress is a first physical reaction and in Lingala they would reaction and Enzo physical or emotional and body has a request or a challenge. So that's. Where affects the way we act the way we think and feel in general a way in general.

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So when we're too much too much mental depression, emotional, then stress, and if it comes back often too, and if you face a new and unpredictable or threatening situation, but also- and you don't know if you can handle it with success. So there is a problem. There is an emotion, but you are incapable of managing that. Well, so, for example, people who have moved to the United States, so we left Africa to come here, it can be conscious. First of all, a cause stress is a big life change.

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So when you change your life, there is also what is called the development of stress, and that comes with a lot of stress that people are not always aware of. So, as we just said when you change a social life and you can create a lot of stress and unknowingly, it can fly in an unnoticed way, so she underlined one more important word: chronic stress, particularly health scarcity. So when you have one you have, the persistent stress in your life can affect the human body, so chronic stress is a feeling of prolonged stress.

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So, if you accumulate, a lot of stress and health can be affected and the causes among the causes are the daily pressures of life by example. We move here in the United States. There are a lot of things: the workers, the very complicated systems. We start life from scratch, the culture shock, all that is stress and it can cause the stress that we call chronic stress, but also certain traumatic situations,, for example, those who have spent a lot of time and in the case of refugees,, therefore refugees,.

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They have experienced a lot of trauma and all that can be recognized as one of the causes of chronic stress or it can be stress, difficult, emotional than anger. People who get upset all the time sadness frustration. So all of these are the causes of stress and environmental stress work. Sometimes there you work, you don't speak English, well how to communicate all this c. There is also a form of stress that can cause us editor in our body.

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There is also relational stress what had relationships, for example, divorce, a romantic relationship, boyfriend girlfriend his wife, it didn't work all that goes away and your body in lingala, so the Bibou and stress Ali, hello,.

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Our our health, please chronic stress, affects both mind body and then causing physical and psychological symptoms as well, which can affect a person's ability to function normally in their everyday life. So chronic stress can also weaken our immune system, it's another defense system and the digestive system which increases obesity and other physical illnesses. So if you have a lot of stress, when you pass normal stress to chronic, you can develop and obesity, so you can develop what we call overweight.

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Then there are also physical illnesses too, but also social isolation. When someone is lonely, he is isolated, it can associate the increased risk of illnesses cardiovascular, so these tips, the heart and its vessels high blood pressure.

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Cancer inflammation loneliness can also have negative effects on your system. Immunity, as just said, and then in some cases we also say race and environment and social- have been suggested as blood pressure increase factor, says stress here and when it is not well treated, it can lead to serious health problems like high blood pressure, diabetes and other chronic diseases. So in lingala.

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So after we have a question entry, we'll ask them: what are some things people can do to manage their health.

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Ok, thank you. So in french we just asked how some things people can do to manage their health. The Congolese community, through this workshop and centered on the Congolese community living here and in Burlington or another that Colchester and Willy Stone. So he proposes here. So you have to be able to build the circle of social support so where people live, they have to know, what's called solidarity, supporting each other in a social way in high school, a great way to manage your mental and emotional health.

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If there's no support it's very dangerous, it's complicated, so people benefiting high levels of support seems to be more resilient to stressful situations.

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Yet we entered to add having friends in the community, so must have friends in the community friends in the community. You can talk to little reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation and boost your self-esteem.

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So friends can also help reinforce healthy habits. Here is imparting regular exercise or preparing healthy meals together. Church is also a great place to build relationships, relationships through faith spirituality and to connect with the other person who have had similar experiences and who may be able to help you overcome some of the challenges you have faced, but also gardening has proven to be effective in reduce the risk of dementia, also here and sun exposure.

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So as we are now tending towards the summer period, there are people who expose themselves to the sun, and all that is good for health and nature can also reduce stress and improve your human and your self-esteem, especially when done in a community setting.

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Ok, so he just answered my question: what are the sources, the resources available in our area? Who are there to help to help that we can have some resources to properly manage the issues that we just talked about? If stress issues all that- and he says this- we have at berington the intervals center that offers free access to food all year round. So.

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For example, July through November, they offer free fresh produce every week from error location. The address is 180 and interval Road in Burlington. So if you need you go to me contact for that and then, from december to june, they have products available twice a month anyway. The resources we do n't know, but we also just learned during the first wednesday of the month they offer food at the 32 ma letter B came to winowski here. You can also go there on the third Friday of the month food and offered at 180 chemin de breton.

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It's already. There is also the cam clinic and the nutrition service and at the medical center and at the uth. Yes, are local services, very important nutrition advice and then also to the american committees for refugees. So the refugee offices in kolchester offer resettlement services, of course, and integration without work sign and our association of africans here and she lives. There are also a lot of resources for that so, and they also also offer interpretation. Translation services is always high there.

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We know very, very well the impeccable job they do if they cannot provide an interpreter locally in required language, so they will contact and she lives they will help, but also we know if there are also community gardens. We still have some community members who already do it. I had community my area of Burlington, which has at least 14 gardens to allow people to plant vegetables and other things.

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So there are other activities it's about good talpacksment. So during the summer, if there is already a whole program and we broadcast them every time in our radio broadcasts. So during this period here we should be able to know everything that is happening in our city of Burlington. The appointment.

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So again, this time still in the case of our show, so we still get students and still Vermont University and New York University in place. Then with and now we're going to talk about that 'is chronic disease on Facebook.

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Well, we'll try, maybe fast given the time, because there really are a few minutes left so I just asked the question that is chronic illness. Chronic illnesses are illnesses that say three months or more. That can get worse over time, of course, and the types of chronic illnesses include. We talked about diabetes type, a type 2 heart disease, cancers, cerebral vaccine accidents, which we call stroke, disease and kidney disease.

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So these are diseases that can affect our heart, of course, our veins, our arteries and our shoulder to the internal organs, our life, as well as our nervous system. Unfortunately, six people are suffering from diseases chronic in the united states. There are particularly common chronic diseases. Hypertension is a type of heart disease. When our blood pressure is higher than normal, we can develop high blood pressure said to lack of exercise, that is to high levels of stress and pregnancy, or a diet high in salt among others.

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These are the causes. Stress also causes hypertension, said to repeated spikes blood pressures. Diabetes were prompt health which affect the way our bodies transform food into energy. Yes, and if it has say this, someone diabetic and you have too much glucose in your blood and those that can lead to other health issues. It's not well treated and the longer I have been diabetic, the less my blood sugar is and controlled and more than the risk of complications is high.

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Chronic and disease diabetes, high blood pressure, dementia problem.

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Ok, so how we can that now is prevention, how we can prevent chronic disease problems, all that and preventative health create habits that keep our bodies healthy, good health. Therefore, it is necessary to prevent it is said in French better to prevent you than heals so that we can be in good health.

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It is necessary to prevent reason why, in the systems, the American Santas, which is very complicated, then for those people who and when someone goes to the hospital, because it is when he is sick, but many people do not have this awareness, but also in our community. Often people see the hospital because he is sick. No, and yet we can prevent him. There are the exercises that we can do and drink lots of water walking all that these are.

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Ok, so how can we manage to manage this? So we say we must do the exercises. We must avoid consuming sugars, too many cans and all that and we have to consult the doctors in case. It's a problem, it's the doctors who will prescribe us and a course of action so that we can take care of ourselves. Knife band.

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Ok, what we just said listen to the base before these are the exercises really be a movement drink lots of water well manage well, and your body avoid stress and socialize with friends. All this panoply of things will allow us that we can be healthy and avoid illnesses, complications and chronic illnesses, because we can make life we can lose our feet our arms so much next, we can do the dishes all that if we can't manage each other well, there I'm only taking the key words so that, because the time is really minimal.

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So there are a lot of resources in berlington that she just presented there. We can go and join the people. We do the activities, walk dance. All that will allow us to properly manage the problems of physical, emotional, environmental stress all that and to prevent us from developing chronic diseases between the diabetes and high blood pressure and other things. There are a lot of resources available in our city of Burlington.

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So now before we close our show we're going to go to the demonstration and they're going to show us some exercises that we can do at home to manage stress well and then be a little active. This monstrous yoga.

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